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John Irwin writes about prisons from an unusual academic perspective. Before receiving a Ph.D. in sociology, he served five years in a California s...

Based on in-depth interviews and two years of participant observation of felons, this book traces the career paths of such criminal types as the th...

The path away from America's prison crisis may lead through the jail. While there may be many positive aspects of jails as sites of confinement, e...